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Disrupting The Remittance Market One Corridor At A Time
Disrupting The Remittance Market One Corridor At A Time
September 14, 2020  |  Cross-border Payments

The pandemic, and the international trail of economic chaos it has wrought, has thrown the growing importance and relevance of readily available digital remittance products...

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Online Retail’s Next Phase: From Adapt To Accelerate
Online Retail’s Next Phase: From Adapt To Accelerate
September 14, 2020  |  eCommerce

Overnight changes in consumer habits are usually rare, with inertia and habit difficult to overcome under normal circumstances. But circumstances have been far from normal this...

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Oracle Looks Victorious As Clock Tick-Tocks Down On Deadline For A TikTok Sale
Oracle Looks Victorious As Clock Tick-Tocks Down On Deadline For A TikTok Sale
September 14, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Oracle appeared to win the TikTok “sale or no sale” negotiations Sunday night, as several sources reported it had been chosen over Microsoft for U.S....

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NEW DATA: The State Of Main Street Businesses Six Months Into The Pandemic
NEW DATA: The State Of Main Street Businesses Six Months Into The Pandemic
September 11, 2020  |  SMBs

Sept. 11, 2020, marks 225 days since the coronavirus was first declared a pandemic on March 11, lasting longer than most of the businesses on...

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Why It Will Take Time For Real Time Payments To Truly Kill The Check
Why It Will Take Time For Real Time Payments To Truly Kill The Check
September 11, 2020  |  Faster Payments

The remarkable persistence of the physical check is something almost miraculous to behold in the world of payments. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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Circle’s Allaire On The Roadmap For Digital Dollar Stablecoins — And Programmable Money
Circle’s Allaire On The Roadmap For Digital Dollar Stablecoins — And Programmable Money
September 11, 2020  |  Digital Payments

To get a sense of how widespread the interest is, Fed Governor Lael Brainard said in August the Boston Fed was teaming up with MIT...

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How Grocery-Delivery Firm Weee! Grew 600 Pct In A Year
How Grocery-Delivery Firm Weee! Grew 600 Pct In A Year
September 11, 2020  |  Retail

There aren’t a lot of companies that capture their enthusiasm like Weee! The online grocery service, which caters to the Asian-American community, puts feeling into...

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Chairish CEO On How COVID-19 Is Redesigning Home Design
Chairish CEO On How COVID-19 Is Redesigning Home Design
September 11, 2020  |  Retail

Home is no longer what it was six months ago — a landing pad of sorts for six hours a day between going to work...

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Finding Voice Commerce’s ‘Hero’ Use Case
Finding Voice Commerce’s ‘Hero’ Use Case
September 10, 2020  |  Amazon Payments

COVID-19 has unexpectedly acted as a major boon to the voice commerce ecosystem. Amazon Pay Head of Product Kris Zanuldin told Karen Webster in a...

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